Transportation

America’s rattiest city takes the Planned Parenthood approach to curbing its rodent problem.

From the 74-horsepower Mitsubishi Mirage to the two-million-dollar, 1600 horsepower Bugatti Veyron Grant Sport Vitesse, there’s a car for everyone. Especially if you want it in the color of a traffic cone.

It was so bad, Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson hosted an hour-long live call-in show that allowed residents to bombard top bureaucrats with questions, capturing history (and the collapse of a mayoral administration) as it happened.

Imagine your own personal El car, running quietly along a small track and taking you directly to the station you request. It almost happened—in Rosemont.

When Chicago closed 47 schools, it directed kids towards better-performing “welcoming schools"—some with considerably higher ratings, some slightly better. Not all parents took them up on the offer, for a variety of reasons.